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">1 watt ( About what is required to keep a compact fluorescent burning for just 1 hour a day), I bet you intend to say ten watts, and might want to correct the typo. Alternatively, you might let me know who sells those 1 watt compact fluorescents...."
TypoBoy

Energy Literacy part One: Energy is invisible
"Actually I was thinking it sounded like L. L. Zamenhof, the developer of Esperanto. He grew up speaking four different languages in his native Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire: Hebrew in the synagogue, Yiddish to family and friends, Polish in the streets and markets, and Russian when dealing with the government (his father was a minor functionary in the Imperial bureaucracy). The linguistic diversity of Bialystok and his observation of the linguistic hurdles people often had to clear led him to co..."
Omir the Storyteller

Klingon as a First Language
"This is twice as hilarious because today is his birthday...."
EscapingTheTrunk

Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel fr
"We've had historical buildings bulldozed on the main street downtown for new developments that never happened. I can haz sandstorms?..."
Antinous / Moderator

Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing bat
"For the Charismatic Churches, some one could make Dance Dance Resurrection...."
Makk

New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to
"Recent use of eminent domain for private development has often come about under the guise of "public-private partnership," one of the buzz terms used by the "small government" types who began to have increasing influence over policy starting in the '80s. It's funny to see how robust these same people's stated concern for property rights remains in the face of corporate money...."
Boba Fett Diop

Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing bat
"Judging by what got leaked during the MK-ULTRA trials about not only the project's ideas for how to construct truth drugs but also their methods of testing the efficacy of said drugs, it isn't surprising that no real progress was made. About the best they managed in terms of what is out in the open is injecting a barbituate into one arm and then an amphetamine into the other (rocketing the subject into a babbling fit, during which they might say something vaguely useful)...."
enkiv2

Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries
"I've just invested in an induction hob a new frontier for me there are remarkable value gained in how I boil water let alone how and what type of food I prepare for example it takes 50% less time now to cook rice peter..."
Anonymous

Energy Literacy part One: Energy is invisible
"This seems like something out of The Onion...."
Ratdog

New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to
"Oh, I thought the punch line to that was "American." :-)..."
Omir the Storyteller

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